Watched Mas­ters of the Uni­verse last week­end. Oh boy…

Mas­ters of the Uni­verse (1987, USA)
Direc­tor: Gary God­dard
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure/Teen

The plot makes no sense and it’s filled with holes so I won’t bother telling it to you. Instead I asked myself cou­ple of ques­tions and answered them:

Where is Orko ?
– Gwildor replaced Orko as a comic side­kick.
Why ?
– Prob­a­bly because they did not have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate Orko.

Where is Prince Adam ?
– Nowhere. He-Man is all the time in his super­form although he shouts at the end, “I have the power!”.

Why does Skele­tor has large army of stormtroop­ers bor­rowed straight up from Star Wars –movies ?
– Yes, why? That is some­thing totally unprecedented.

Where is Bat­tle Cat (aka Cringer) or many other major char­ac­ters known from the series ?
– Well, the movie fol­lows the ani­ma­tion series only a little.

Clos­ing com­ments:
What you get is a movie that some­how resem­bles the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse with “stormtroop­ers” and same kind of music bor­rowed rom Star Wars but it actu­ally doesn’t remind anything!

Worth watch­ing?
If you’re look­ing for decent turkey, you’ve got watch Mas­ters of the Uni­verse. It has blonde mus­cu­lar Swedish actor sput­ter­ing bad eng­lish, rub­ber­faced Skele­tor, 80s teen movie action and of course, He-Man him­seld. For me, that was enough.

There is cur­rently a new He-Man and the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse –movie in pro­duc­tion (pro­duced by Joel Sil­ver). It will have visual effects done in the sim­i­lar way as with the movie “300”. It has the poten­tial but I fear the worst… I found cou­ple of inter­views (1) (2) about the new film and it seems they just might be doing it right. At least, in the way how the new Trans­form­ers film turned out to be.

Here is some great moments from the movie I uploaded to YouTube:

I’ll be spin­ning some records on sat­ur­day at Cafe Kaup­pay­htiö as part of “Lin­nun­laulupu­bin jouluka­len­teri”. DJ Maceo had to can­cel his gig so we’ve got some dj’s back­ing up.

“Vanha Hippi” (old hip­pie) is a song by Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies. It isn’t the the first reg­gae song in Fin­land but among the first ones, yes. It appears on the first vol­ume of “Suomi Rock ’80″ com­pi­la­tions released by Poko Records.
Most of the older Finnish reg­gae stuff aren’t any good (e.g. Avaru­uslintu — Kesä Reg­gae) but this “Vanha Hippi” is a great suc­cess mostly because of the con­tro­ver­sial and amus­ing lyrics! Def­i­nitely a good source for vocal sam­ples (tip!).

As said before, the eas­i­est way to get it is to acquire a copy of Suomi Rock ’80 com­pi­la­tion but we’re here @ Kyny­Nasty so nice peo­ple that we offer you the oppor­tu­nity to get it right here.

Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies — Vanha Hippi

If you’re the owner of the song/the artist per­form­ing it/don’t want it to be put online, please mes­sage us and we’ll remove it as soon as possible.

A brief his­tory of Finnish reg­gae (pub­lished in Ylioppilas-lehti 09/2001, in Finnish)

This week­end Rovaniemi has more than enough club events for any­one. Prob­a­bly too much, some events will bite the dust for sure. Which club would you go? Btw, dubline is free even though it says 3,5€

This week I dis­cov­ered (well, friend of mine found) a very nice track called ‘En Route A Vienna’ by Mal­tese pro­ducer ‘Ori­ent Express’. Not much infor­ma­tion about him though. Very excit­ing track indeed. I think it stands next to Alden Tyrell’s pro­duc­tions if not outdo! You can down­load short­ened ver­sion from Squadron Fes­ti­val — Down­load page.

One of my favorite pro­duc­ers at the moment ‘Calvin Har­ris’, has done cou­ple of excel­lent tracks lately. One of those tracks is pro­duced for ‘The Mitchell Broth­ers’ and it is called ‘Michael Jack­son’. Lis­ten to it on their myspace and watch the video here. More Calvin good­ness is avail­able on new release ‘BBC Radio 1 Estab­lished 1967′ which is a col­lec­tion of cov­ers espe­cially recorded for Radio 1. Calvin’s track is a cover of Jamiroquai’s ‘Still­ness In Time’. Vocoder­heaven! Hear it.

Inter­est­ing thing is that Calvin Har­ris has pro­duced two tracks for Kylie Minogue’s forth­com­ing album ‘X’. I’ve heard the other one already and it’s sur­pris­ingly good! Trade­mark synths by Calvin. Lovely!